Lafarge to invest US$90m to reconstruct Aceh plant

Published:
07 July 2005

Lafarge SA will invest US$90m to rebuild a cement plant in Aceh, Indonesia, destroyed by the tsunamis December 2004, the French company said Thursday ending speculation that the company was going to abandon the kiln at Aceh and just concentrate on a local grinding operation fed by clinker from a new greenfield plant in southern Sumatra.